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Senate Finance Committee considers a trust fund stopgap, with long-term funding unclear

25 Jun 2014 | Posted by David Goldberg | 0 Comments | gas tax, highway trust fund, senate, Senate Finance, Senator Corker, Senator Murphy, Senator Wyden, ways and means

The Senate Finance Committee Thursday will take up a proposal from Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) to keep the Highway Trust Fund solvent through Dec. 31 with a $9 billion transfer from the general budget. The needed revenue would be raised by increasing the allowable tax on heavy trucks and four accounting maneuvers unrelated to transportation.

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Support the Senate’s bipartisan plan to raise the gas tax

| Posted by Steve Davis | 0 Comments | Action, gas tax, Highway Funding and Tax Reduction Proposal, highway trust fund, Senator Corker, Senator Murphy

After months of hearing from mayors and business leaders and citizens and people of all stripes who are worried about the looming bankruptcy of our transportation fund, a key Senate committee is taking up a temporary fix to the trust fund. But Congress still must find a long-term solution to save our nation’s transportation fund. Two Senators have offered that solution, and it’s time to support that plan.

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Favorable responses and coverage for the bipartisan Senate plan to raise the gas tax

19 Jun 2014 | Posted by Teddy Lederer | 0 Comments | funding, gas tax, Highway Funding and Tax Reduction Proposal, liuna, senate, Senator Corker, Senator Murphy, streetsblog, usa today, washington post

As soon as Senators Murphy and Corker introduced their bipartisan plan yesterday to raise the gas tax by 12 cents, supportive statements starting flowing in and media outlets quickly picked up the news.

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Senators unveil bipartisan plan to rescue the federal transportation program by raising the gas tax

18 Jun 2014 | Posted by Steve Davis | 0 Comments | funding, gas tax, Highway Funding and Tax Reduction Proposal, senate, Senator Corker, Senator Murphy

Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Bob Corker (R-TN) today announced their bipartisan plan to raise the nation’s gas tax by 12 cents over two years to rescue the nation’s Highway Trust Fund, which is headed for insolvency before the end of the summer.

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